Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Last play of the Dream vs Fever game

I think I'll have more of a breakdown of this game tomorrow because it was a fun watch, but right away I want to look at the last play of the game.  There are a lot of Fever fans upset that the last shot went to Natasha Howard, but let's give credit where credit is due:  the Dream played awesome defense at the end there.

Here is the sequence for reference:

And here is the response from some internet users.




Howard is going to get a ton of heat from the Fever fanbase because she missed four free throws and the game winner.  And it's understandable that fans feel cheated by not seeing Caitlin Clark or Aaliyah Boston take the last shot.  But all the credit should go to Atlanta for forcing this play, specifically Brionna Jones, who did an amazing job of not getting beat on the cross screen and letting Boston set up on the low post.  What I suspect was going to happen was an inbounds pass to Boston and a read to get Clark a shot in the corner or top of the key going left off the inbounds, or maybe even a spin move for a layup for Boston.  But since Jones played it so well, Clark had to throw it over the top to Natasha Howard, who made a great catch.  Nia Coffey played it perfectly and blocked the shot.

Now what I don't understand:  on TV it said that Indiana had a timeout remaining, but they took the reset timeout to advance and I think that was their last timeout.  There's no way the Fever ended the game with a timeout, right? Right?!


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